Polytechnic students stage demo blocking Tejgaon road

Students of different polytechnic institutes have been staging demonstration by blocking a road in Tejgaon’s Satrasta area of the capital Dhaka to press home their six-point demand.

Students from government-private Polytechnic institutes, Technical School and College and Bangladesh Technical Education Board, took position on the road at about 10:00 am and chanted various slogans in favour of their demands.

The road blockade resulted in the suspension of vehicular movement, causing huge suffering to the commuters.

The protesting students warned to go for tougher movement if their six-point demands are not met.

Their six-point demand includes the transfer of “controversial craft instructors” recruited after 2021, ensuring four years of education in the diploma engineering course, and making each semester a full term of six months.

They further demanded that no one other than diploma engineers be allowed to apply for the post of deputy assistant engineer (10th grade), and that the post of deputy assistant engineer and other equivalent positions be reserved exclusively for diploma engineers.